How you understand the Catholic Holy Eucharist teachings: when you eat His [Christ} body and drink His blood,?

That was the only CHRISTIAN teaching till some Protestants changed it.

“Take and eat; this is my body.” 27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Heavy duty theology when Jesus said, THIS IS MY BODY, THIS IS MY BLOOD OF COVENANT...Jesus LEFT NO ROOM for you or up for you to interpret when he said" THIS IS MY ... definite present tense ..it is for you to obey. .

B Pitre, on jewish origin of Holy Eucharist:

The ancient Jewish teachings as written in the Old Testament where the Jews eat manna from heaven is really prefiguration to the NT covenant with Jesus: ,,, eat my body and drink my blood for everlasting life. Awesome.

Catholic teaching on the Eucharist is, in my view, confused.. on so many levels.

The Catholic Church teaches that the Catholic sacraments are essential for Christian life but then deny that they teach without the Catholic sacraments there is no salvation. (note for most of Catholic history though they did actually teach this, it's only in relatively modern times they changed). This is where the Catholic doctrine requires mental gymnastics as you must wrestle with the idea between "essential" and "salvation". It's pretty typical of man made doctrinal developments and endemic to Catholic theology. (i.e creating two competing ideas and then mentally juggling to explain they don't compete at all).

The other mental gymnastics deployed here is where Catholics argue that the bible verses relating to the Eucharist are literal (we must drink the blood and eat the body) but then when you point out the wafer and juice don't actually change they argue the change is spiritual. Did you see the switch? The bible verses must be literal but not really they're spiritual.... enter mental gymnastics to convince yourself these things don't actually compete.

For this reason, I think the Catholic Church should be known as the CCC (the Confused Catholic Church).

Why would any want to eat everlasting life when they already have everlasting life?

It just demonstrates the shallow, blasphemous lie of the Roman Catholic Church to obtain control and take the place of Christ.

As you need food and water to nourish your body, you need Jesus' body and blood (spiritual) to nourish your soul.

Transubstantiation (like many Catholic doctrines) is a false teaching. Here's what Jesus actually said that they totally ignore.

Mt 26:26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” 27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

After calling the cup his "blood", he immediately refers to it as the "fruit of the vine". Obviously he was being symbolic calling the wine his blood. You will never hear a priest, after calling the cup "Jesus' blood", tell others that it is the "fruit of the vine" like Jesus did.

Jesus is the bread of life in the sense that "man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord" (Dt 8:3). That was Jesus' use of the metaphor eating him/bread in Jn 6:32-66. Catholics mix up that metaphor with the one regarding the Lord's Supper. The former has to do with incorporating the teachings of Jesus into one's life and the latter is about remembering his sacrifice.

When I show you a photo of my brother and say “This is my brother.”, are you smart enough to figure out that that paper with colors on it is not literally the other boy that my mother bore?

Read the verses before and after in the actual Bible, not Vatican tradition writings. It is easy to see in context that Jesus is using symbolism. Just as the woman at the well was told of water, which would cause her never to thirst again, was not a literal magic sports drink.

I looked it up online.

The official textbook for teaching little Catholics what they MUST believe, states that the bread thing, once it has been consecrated, still LOOKS just like bread, but is now the entire body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus of Nazareth.

One problem I have with that is that IF TRUE, the people receiving the no-longer-bread thing, are getting the ENTIRE body of a 33 to 40-year-old preacherman.

That would include toenails, armpit hair, and other bits I'd rather not mention in front of the children.

I'm not saying that the Catholics' doctrine of "Transubstantiation" is erroneous; just that it's ever so slightly disgusting.